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[003361] . SCIENCE, August 31, 1883. No. 30.. ill. Etchings, Tables, Graph. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1883. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good Articles: Notes on the Geology of the Troad, by J.S. Diller; Occurrence of Mound-Builders Pipes in New Jersey, by Charles C. Abbott with an illustration; The Igloo of the Innuit. -III. with 9 illustrations; Minnesota Weather; Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Geology of Philadelphia by Henry Carvill Lewis; The Iroquois Book of Rites; The Evidence for evolution in the history of the extinct Mammalia with a table; A classification of the natural sciences by T. Sterry Hunt with a table; Orbit of the great comet of 1882 by Edgar Frisbie; The tornado at Racine, May 18, 1883 ; A Method for the calibration of a galvanometer with an illustration; The utilization of the sun's rays for warming and ventilating apartments by E. S. Morse; New form of selenium cell, with some remarkable electrical discoveries made by its use; 3 articles by B. F. Thomas: A Method of determining the centre of gravity of a mass with an illustration; Two forms of apparatus for Boyle's law with 2 illustrations; and A new heliostat with an illustration; The static telephone by Prof. A. E. Dolbear; Report of the committee on indexing the literature of chemical elements; The kinetic theory of the specific heat of solids and A kinetic theory of melting boiling by H. T. Eddy; On y-dichlordibrompropionic and y-dichlorbromacrylic acids by C.F. Mabery; The sub-aqueous dissociation of certain salts with a graph; Suggestions for computing the speed of chemical reactions; Twelve months of lysimeter record at the New York agricultural experiment station by E.L. Sturtevant; The composition of American wheat and corn with a table; The sotol, A Mexican forage plant; American butters and their adulterations by H. W. Wiley; A Comparison of terr-cotta lumber with other materials; Improvements in shaping-machines; Regularity of flow in double-cylinder rotary pumps; The early History of the North American Continent; and The Remington Type-Writer by Richard A. Proctor with an illustration. pp. 255-298. Covers are advertisements for Photo-Engraving, Park Place, N.Y. and Electrical Test Instruments.. Additional page front and back with advertisements, before articles. ex.-mus. stamp and numbers on front cover. Some small chips on side and bottom edges.Spine split up 6" but covers still intact. overall exterior is Good.. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Around borders some age-toning, not on text. $60.00

[003103] . THE SWISS CROSS. A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION, 20 Issues 1887-1889. ill. Figures (line drawings), Woodcuts. New York: N.D.C. Hodges, 1887. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good- to Fair 1887: Vol.I: No.1-6 Jan.-June. and 1887: Vol.II: No. 2, 4-6. August, October-December. 1888: Vol.III: No. 1-4, 6. Jan.-April, June and 1888: Vol.IV: No.2, 4. August, October.1889: Vol.V. No. 1-2, 6. Jan.-Feb., June. Some articles cover:Early Man in America, Water-Crystals, Photography, Astronomy, Botany, Birds, Zoology, Ichthyology, Native Americans, Eskimo Igloos, and many more. Covers are very worn/tears, some detached, and soiled. Some issues have "Agassiz Association, Chap. 158" on cover. Several have small stickers/labels with " Agassiz Association, Dec87,Chap. 158"Good- to Fair. Interiors are clean, and Very Good. Wonderful engravings throughout each issue. Scarce. $350.00

[003208] . FUR SEAL ARBITRATION. PROCEEDINGS OF THE TRIBUNAL OF ARBITRATION, CONVENED AT PARIS, Under The Treaty Between The United States Of America And Great Britain Concluded At Washington February 29th, 1892, 14 Volumes. . ill. Tables, Foldout Maps, . Washington: Government Printing Bureau, 1895. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Brown Cloth. American History. Good to Good+ For The Determination Of Questions Between The Two Governments Concerning The Jurisdictional Rights Of The United States In The Waters Of The Bering Sea. Gives the proceedings and results of the arbitration between the United States and Great Britain regarding the fur seals of the Pribilof Islands. 14 volumes- Vol. 13 missing. VOL.I: Final Report of the Agent of the United States: Protocols of the Proceedings of the Tribunal; Award and Declaration; Opinions of Mr. Justice Harland and Senator Morgan. VOL.II: Treaty of Arbitration of 1892; Historical and Jurisdictional questions; Habits, Preservation, and Value of the Alaskan Seal Herd, and to the Property of the U.S. and Reports of Bering Sea Commission including Appendices A-E. Includes Log Books of Sealing Vessels, and Subject-Index. VOL.III: (Appendix to Vol. II) List of Deponents; Testimony Relating to Pribilof Islands; St. Paul Island; St. George Island; Russian Seal Islands; Testimony Taken on or Near Kadiak Island; Cook's Inlet; Yakutat Bay; Among Natives on or near Lynn Canal and Chatham Sound; On or near Sitka, Dixon Entrance, At Nicholas Bay from Indians while they were hunting Fur-Seal; On Vancouver Island; at Victoria, British Columbia; In State of Washington from fishery expert on the U.S. Steamer Albatross and the U.S. Steamer Corwin; Among Makah Indians; and In San Francisco. Also Testimony Relating to the General Sealskin Industry in U.S. and to Antarctic Sealing. 11 large fold-out maps in back. VOL.IV: Case Presented on Behalf of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty to The Tribunal of Arbitration. With Appendix. VOL.V: Appendix to Case of Her Majesty's Government: United States. No. 2 (1890) Correspondence respecting the Behring Sea Seal Fisheries: 1886-90 including two large foldout maps.VOL.VI: Unites States. No. 2 (1893) Report of the Behring Sea Commission and Report of British Commissioners of June 21, 1892. With 5 maps, Diagrams, and Appendices. VOL.VII: The Counter Case of The U.S. before the Tribunal of Arbitration to Convene at Paris, including Appendix and 7 large foldout maps. VOL.VIII: Counter-Case Presented on the Part of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty...VOL.IX: Argument of The U.S. ...VOL.X: Argument of Her Majesty's Government. VOL.XI: Oral Arguments on The Motion of the British Government for the Production by the U.S. of the Report of Henry. W. Elliott and on The Motion of the U.S. for the Rejection of the Supplementary Report of the British Commissioners. VOL.XII: Oral Arguments of Counsel on Case and Counter-Case. VOL.XIII: Missing. VOL.XIV: Oral Argument on Regulations by Sir Charles Russell, Her Britannic Majesty's Attorney-General. VOL.XV: Oral Argument of Hon. Edward J. Phelps on Behalf of the U.S. ex. mus. paper labels on spines. Gilt lettering on spines. One volume with moisture residue on top edge of covers-no internal damage. Several with very minor "dents" to top or side edge (dropped?). Some spine ends slightly frayed or chipped. All very minor. Exteriors are Good or Better. One thick volume's front hinge beginning to tear, 1". Some of the large foldout maps' side border slightly age-toned-doesn't affect maps. Most interiors are a little "wavy" to the touch, otherwise the interiors are tight, clean and Very Good +. $995.00

[003215] . SCIENCE, September 11, 1885. Volume VI. No. 136. ill. Etchings. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good+ Articles by Famous Americans: W. R. NICHOLS "Chemistry in the service of public health"; EDWARD ORTON "Problems in the study of coal, with a sketch of recent progress in geology"; DR. BURT G. WILDER "Educational musuems of vertebrates"; and EDWARD ATKINSON "The application of science to the production and consumption of food". Other articles: on Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Mechanical Science, Geology and Geography, Biology, Histological Investigation, Histology and Microscopy, Native Tribes of Alaska, Anthropology and Economic Science and Statistics. In Notes and News: Paragraph on a monument of the first duke of Sutherland in England being struck and injured by lightning with an illustration; Use of the telephone for military purposes with an illustration and An electric railway at Frankfort with illustration. ex. mus. stamp (faint) on front cover. Covers slightly soiled. Bottom edge lightly chipped on front cover, back cover chipped with one 1" tear and 3/4"x1/2" circular spot?goes through on bottom edge on several pages, never close to text. Otherwise exterior is VG. First page of text with several soiled spots? otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG. Vertical crease through publication as if once folded. Not obtrusive. $45.00

[003233] . SCIENCE, November 20, 1885. Volume VI. No. 146. ill. Tables, Engravings. New York: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good to Good+ With Science Supplement. Article by a Famous American: in Science Supplement: E. J. JAMES "Recent land legislation in England". Other articles: "Blackfoot Tribes"; "Some Reaction-Time Studies" with a table; "Ben Nevis Meteorological Observatory" with an illustration of the observatory; and "Entomology in the National Museum" with a table. In Letters to the Editor: "Effigy mounds in Iowa" with an illustration. Covers slightly soiled. ex.mus. stamp on front. vertical crease, mildly seen throughout publication, very minor. Slight chipping at bottom edge, very slightly at top. Overall covers are Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Supplement's bottom edge mildly chipped otherwise in VG condition. $45.00

[004947] . INDIAN JEWELRY, 6 ARIZONA HIGHWAY MAGAZINES 1954-79. ill. Photographs & Drawings. Phoenix AZ: Arizona Highway Department, Size: Approx. 9" X 12". Magazines. Indian Jewelry. Very Good+ 6 beautiful issues with Indian Jewelry on the covers with articles and color photographs inside. Years: AUGUST 1954; JULY 1971; JANUARY 1974; AUGUST 1974; MARCH 1975; and APRIL 1979 (Collector's Edition). Articles regarding Indian Jewelry: NAVAJO SILVER CRAFT, A Liberally Illustrated Account of the Famous Navajo Craftsmen; GLASS INDIAN TRADE BEADS; TURQUOISE; TURQUOISE IN INDIAN JEWELRY; ARIZONA'S PREHISTORIC JEWELRY; CHARLES LOLOMA; THE FIRST SILVERSMITHS; SILVER OVERLAY-A HOPI TRADITION; A SPECIAL COLLECTION OF ALL INDIAN JEWELRY, RELATED ARTS AND ARTIFACTS; C.G. WALLACE; CORAL-RED GOLD OF INDIAN JEWELRY; OLD PAWN...THE REAL, REAL INDIAN JEWELRY; THE NEW TRADERS, New art forms, new silversmiths, new markets; THE TURQUOISE OSTRICH; INDIAN JEWELRY GOES CONTEMPORY; plus one complete issue on Jewelry: THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION. All issues are Very Good to Near Fine. Charles Loloma (1921-1991) was perhaps the most famous Native American jewelry artist of his day. C. G. Wallace is probably the most famous trader name from Zuni jewelry history. $50.00

[004221] . UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 1928-1933 8 Issues. ill. Photographs, Sketches, Maps, Facsimiles. Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah State Historical Society, Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Paper Wraps. Utah. Very Good April 1928: Vol. I No.2 on Utah Indians Past and Present. No covers otherwise Very Good. October 1929: Volume 2 No. 4 on Journal of John Boardman, Negro Slaves in Utah, and American Posts. July 1930: Vol.3 No. 3 on Hastings Cutoff, Reminiscences of John R. Young, Early Justice in Utah, Material Progress of Utah, and American Posts. 3 issues for 1932: January, April and July-Articles: Salmon River Mission, Reminiscences of Indian Habits and Character, Death of Captain May, Naming Silver Reef, Extracts from the Journal of Henry W. Bigler, American Posts,Replica of First Newspaper printed in Utah, after The Deseret News, and Early Printing in Utah outside of Salt Lake City. 2 issues from 1933: January and April-Articles include Extracts from the Journal of John Steele, American Posts, John Crook's Journal, Pahute Fire Legend, and Glossary of Indian Work. All issues except for 1928 have grey covers. All have a white sticker label at top left corner(ex-lib?). Otherwise covers are Very Good +. Interiors are tight, clean and Very Good+. $75.00

[004224] . UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 1970-1977 30 Issues. ill. Photographs, Facsimiles, Maps, Sketches. Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah State Historical Society, Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2". Stiff Covers. Utah. Very Good Complete years for 1970-1972 and 1974-1976 with all four issues of Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. For 1973 and 1977: 3 issues for each year. Articles include: Mining; 1922 Coal Miner's Strike; Utah's Labor Movement; Brigham Young; Mormon Settlement; Sarah M. Kimball; Truman Leonard; Utah State Supreme Court; Mormon Folklore; Joseph L. Rawlins, Father of Utah Statehood; Immigrants and Mines; Architectural History; Education; Agriculture; Transportation, Politics; Mormon Battalion; Fort Bridger; Fort Rawlins; Utah Goes Dry; Mormon Culture in Eastern Arizona; Utah's Ethnic Minorities; History of the Southern Paiutes and Western Shoshonis; Southern Utes; Navajo Frontiers in Utah ; Gosiute Indians; Hopis and the Mormons 1858-1873; Utah Statehood 1896; Negro Slavery in Utah; Greek Immigrants in Utah; Colorado River Exploration and the Mormon War; Overland to California: Journal of Calvin Taylor; and Women in Utah. Pictorial covers. Occasional chips/tears at spines. Overall covers are Very Good to Very Good+. Interiors are tight, clean and Very Good +. $145.00

[004296] . DESERT MAGAZINE, December 1949. . ill. Photographs, Maps, Drawings,. William Knyvett, Magazine: Desert. Very Good- December 1949 issue with cover showing White Christmas on the Desert. Some articles include: Valley of the Cathedrals, by Charles Kelly; We found Ant Hills covered with Jewels, by Edith Rutenic McLeod; Panamint Pack Trip, by Randall Henderson; Pom Poms at Christmas, by Dorothy L. Pillsbury; and Adobe Maker of Scottsdale, by Christine B. MacKenzie. Cover has a small tear at front spine "joint" and date: Nov. 25 stamped in the "D" for DESERT on the front cover, otherwise the covers are VG. Interior is tight, clean and VG+ $7.00

[000400] [Catlin, George]. Sketching Up the Missouri River in 1832. ill. Catlin. Gilcrease Institute Library: American Scene Magazine, 1964. Offprint. Size: Approx. 8 " x 11". Softcover. Artists. Very Good+ Offprint from Vol.V, No.3, 1964, of AMERICAN SCENE, a Gilcrease Institute publication. "Contents quoted from George Catlin's writings, notes, and sketches" in the Gilcrease Library. George Catlin was one of the first artists to venture into the trans-Mississippi West. 1832 found him in the West alone, preparing for a journey up the Missouri river to sketch and paint. Mr. Catlin was an eye-witness to history; what he saw he preserved for all mankind. 28 pp., with Catlin on-site sketches, accompanied (on facing pages) by Catlin's own notes on each sketch. Some are remarkable action depictions (Indian dances,killing buffalo on horseback, medicine men invoking spirits, etc.) It ends with Catlin's own notation "Thus much I wrote and painted at this place, whilst on my way up the river," and his signature. 16 full page illustrations.Covers are Very Good to Very Good+. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $25.00

[004294] Bryant, Edwin. ROCKY MOUNTAINS ADVENTURES, Bristling with Animated Details of Fearful Fights of American Hunters with Savage Indians, Mexican Rancheros, and Beasts of Prey . ill. Frontis. Engraving. New York: Hurst & Co, 1885. Arlington Edition. Size: Approx. 5 " x 7 1/2". Red Decorative. American History. Good "Awful fate of hundreds of overland emigrants amid the snow drifts of the Truckee Peaks, from whence half-frozen men, women, and children were carried over slippery cliffs, lashed to the backs of their gallant rescuers." Also, a "full account" of "The Bear Conquest of California". 452 pp. plus 4 pages of book advertisements. Decorative front cover with Arlington Edition written along cover. Spine faded. Title illegible. Spine ends rubbed/fraying. Overall covers are Good. Frontis. engraving with tissue guard protection. Front hinge broken. paper label with previous owner's name and number on front endpaper. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG. Brown toned to pages, possibly due to age of book. $18.50

[004091] Denig, Edwin Thompson. FIVE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE UPPER MISSOURI. Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows.. ill. Facsimiles. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Salmon Cloth. Native American. Good+ to Very Good- Edited By John C. Ewers. Civilization of the American Indian series.217 pp. including Index and Bibliography. ex.lib. markings. Front cover 2 white blemishs? otherwise covers are VG. Description flap from DJ glued to front free endpaper. College library bookplate glued on front endpaper. Library stamp and numbers on Editor's Acknowledgment page. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. $25.00

[001735] Godfrey, Elizabeth H.. YOSEMITE INDIANS. . 1973. Fine $10.00

[004735] House of Representatives. Statehood for the Territories...Oklahoma and Arizona . ill. Tables. 1906. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". Disbound. American History. Very Good- 59th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 496. " ...This bill, enables two States to be admitted into the Union. It consists of 43 sections, the first 18...relate to the proposed State of Oklahoma, the area which is to comprise the present Territory of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory: and the remaining 17 sections relate to the proposed State of Arizona..." 28 pp. Includes an Analysis of Bill; Qualifications for Statehood; Arizona; New Mexico; Oklahoma and Indian Territory; Allotment; Memorandum showing condition of work to the Five Civilized Tribes (Seminole Nation, Creek Nation, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations and the Cherokee Nation); and Conclusion. Includes Views of the Minority and Appendix No. I: Protests to Congress against the Passage of the Joint State Bill for New Mexico and Arizona. Disbound. Pages 1-12 intact, page 13 loose. and pages 13-28 intact. 1/2" tear on pages 13-28 at top left margin. Not near text. Otherwise document is Very Good. Clean. $35.00

[003748] House of Representatives. CAPTAIN J. ALLEN'S EXPEDITION. Letter From The Secretary Of War.. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1846. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Disbound. U. S.Government Document. Very Good 29th Congress. 1st Session. Doc. No.168. House of Representatives. "Transmitting The report, journal, and map of Captain J. Allen, of the first regiment of dragoons, of his expedition to the heads of the rivers Des Moines, Blue Earth, &c, in the northwest..." .(Research done indicates that the Map mentioned was not issued.) 18 pp. Report of an expedition into the Indian country (Sioux).Submitted by W.L. Marcy, Secretary of War.(President James K. Polk). Mild foxing along side margin otherwise document is Very Good. $60.00

[004736] House of Representatives. THE TERRITORY OF OKLAHOMA.. 1877. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". Disbound. Oklahoma. Very Good THE TERRITORY OF OKLAHOMA. MR. SOUTHARD, FROM THE COMMITTEE ON THE TERRITORIES, SUBMITTED THE FOLLOWING REPORT. 44th Cong., 2d Sess. House of Representatives Report No. 82. "The Territory proposed to be organized by this bill is bounded on the north by Kansas and Colorado, on the south by Texas, on the east by Missouri and Arkansas, and on the west by Texas and the Territory of New Mexico. It contains about 70,000 square miles, which is an area larger than the six New England States..." 13 pp. Includes statistics on the Indian tribes. "This territory is occupied by thirty-one Indian tribes, who number in the aggregate about 75,000 souls. The principal of these tribes are what are known as the five civilized tribes, viz, the Cherokee, the Creek, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, and the Seminole..." Disbound. Last page barely attached otherwise in Very Good condition. Clean and tight. Famous Americans in document: Chapman Freeman; Geo. A. Bagley;and D.B. Culberson of the Committee on the Territories. $35.00

[003881] House of Representatives. CHEROKEE INDIAN LANDS. Joint Resolution fo The Legislature of Kansas. 1866. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Disbound. Cherokee Indians. Very Good Praying For such legislation as may enable persons entitled thereto to purchase certain lands under the seventeenth article of the treaty of July 19, 1866, between the United States and the Cherokee Indians. House of Representives. Mis. Doc. No. 91, 43d Congress, 2d session. February 22, 1875. Disbound. 2 pp.(front and back) Very Good. $15.00

[003919] House of Representatives. ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATIONS. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting Estimates of Additional Appropriations required For The Service of the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 1861, and June 30, 1862.. ill. Tables. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 9". Disbound. Civil War. Very Good House of Representatives. 37th Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 1. Civil War years. Estimates for "Indian Department", Army, Armoires, Arsenals, Munitions of War, Fortifications, etc. Numerous tables. 91 pp. Disbound but intact, clean and in Very Good+ condition. $50.00

[004651] House of Representatives. SURVEY OF ARKANSAS RIVER. ill. Tables. 1870. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 9". Disbound. Arkansas. Very Good+ Letter from The Secretary of War in Answer to A resolution of the House of May 12, 1870, transmitting a copy of a report of S. T. Abert on the survey of the Arkansas River. 33 pp. Covers: Report of the Arkansas River; Description of the Physical Character of the Indian Territory; Indians; Physical Description of the River Valley in the State of Arkansas; Tributaries; Wood, Timber, and Soil of the Indian Territory; Geology of the Arkansas Valley; Wood, Timber, and Soil of Arkansas; Navigation; Trade and Petit Jean Island. Tables of water levels and tables showing discharges with observed and computed velocities complete with equations. Famous Americans in document: Wm. W. Belknap, Secretary of War; A.A. Humphreys, Brigadier General and Chief of Engineers; J. N. Macomb, Colonel of Engineers, Brevet Colonel U.S.A.; and S.T. Abert, Assistant Engineer in charge of survey. Disbound but intact. Clean, tight and in Very Good to Very Good+ condition. The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast, and traverses the states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. $50.00

[004006] House of Representatives, War Department. INDIANS REMOVED TO WEST MISSISSIPPI FROM 1789. ill. Tables. 1839. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Disbound. Mississippi River. Very Good 25th Congress, 3d Session. Doc. No. 147. Letter from The Secretary of War, Transmitting The information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 14th ultimo, relating to Indians removed from the east to the west side of the Mississippi, from 1789 to 1838. Table with "Statement of lands purchased from Indian tribes in each year, from 1789 to 1838, inclusive, with the amounts stipulated to be paid therefor." Another table with:"Statement showing the number of Indians annually removed from the eastern to the western side of the Mississippi from 1789 to 1838, inclusive". Secretary of War was Joel Poinsett (who developed the poinsettia from a Mexican flower). Also included "Copy of a resolution calling for a report of the quantity of land granted in each of the States and Territories for common schools, roads, and canals, etc.". Includes tables with States: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Michigan, Arkansas, Florida, Wisconsin, and Iowa. 9 pp. Disbound but intact. Very Good condition. $75.00

[004293] King, Captain Charles U.S.A.. CAMPAIGNING WITH CROOK . ill. Drawings. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. Second Printing. Size: Approx. 5 " x 7 1/2". Green Cloth. American History. Very Good+ / Good. The Western Frontier Library. Very Good."Covers the activities of the Fifth Cavalry before joining Crook's force, including the fight on the War Bonnet, which succeeded in turning a large group of Cheyennes back to the Red Cloud Agency and prevented their joining Sitting Bull. It was on the War Bonnet that King witnessed Buffalo Bill Cody's famous fight with Yellow Hand, which he recounts in detail. 165 pp. including two pages of other Western Frontier Library Books. CAMPAIGNING WITH CROOK is Number 25. Book is Very Good +. Interior is tight,clean and VG+ to Near Fine. Dust Jacket's front top flap corner clipped. Date stamped on back flap. Rubbing at edges. No tears. Overall Good. $15.00

[001926] Mathews, John Joseph. WAH'KON-TAH. ill. May Todd Aaron. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932. Orange Cloth. Native American. Good $27.50

[001863] Museum Of New Mexico. . El Palacio--a Quarterly Journal of the Museum of New Mexico: Volume 75/3, Autumn 1968. Very Good+ "foundation" stamp on title p. otherwise Near Fine. $2.00

[001835] Reader's Digest.. America's Fascinating Indian Heritage.. 1986. VG+ corners and spine edges very lightly bumped otherwise Near Fine. $5.00

[000215] Rice, Josiah M.. A CANNONEER IN NAVAJO COUNTRY. ill. Halftones /full-color Plates. Denver: Denver Public Library Denver, 1970. Limited. Size:10 1/2" x 8 1/4". Western Americana. Fine/Fine Limited Ed. brown cloth. 123 pp. Journal of Private Josiah M. Rice, 1851 22 illustration sketches by author, 20 reproduced in halftones and 2 in full-color plates. Two-color map as frontpiece. Josiah Rice's journal "is an account by a common soldier, a cannoneer in Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner's 1851 show-of-strength against the hostile Indians in the newly acquired territory of New Mexico, which then included the present state of Arizona. "Index. Table of Distances Traversed, Letters. Limited edition of 1500 copies. Edited by Richard H. Dillon. $45.00

[000961] Ritzenthaler, Robert E. And Pat Ritzenthaler. THE WOODLAND INDIANS OF THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES. ill. Photographs. Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.: Milwaukee Public Museum, 1983. Second Printing. Size: Approx. 6" x 9". Soft Cover. Native American. Good+ ISBN: 0-89326-093-2. Although not as well known as some other tribes, they were the tribe used in Longfellow's poem HIAWATHA, in the works of James Fenimore Cooper, and the story of Pocahontas. 154 pp. Photographs provided by Milwaukee Public Museum. Pictorial softcover. Wear at spine and gutters. One small tear at back side edge. "Matter 88" in ink written on front cover. Interior is Very Good+. Glossary, Bibliography and Index. $8.00

[004264] Sauer, Carl. MAN IN NATURE,America Before the Days of the White Man A First Book in Geography. ill. Illus., Antonio Sotomayor, Maps. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Size: Approx. 8 1/4 " x 10 1/2". Orange Cloth. Geography. Signed by One of the Author. Good SIGNED by Margaret Warthin Campbell on front free endpaper: "Best love from one of the "authors". Another gift inscription above it with 1940 date. Margaret Warthin wrote the GEOGRAPHY section and she was formerly with American Geographic Society. " There are three important reasons for using Indian life: 1) The diversity of Indian living in North America is so great that it includes the whole series of culture stages or steps from the primitive gatherer to a society which had developed town life and strong states...2)The Indian material provides the most excellent illustration of man's increasing mastery over nature, a basic theme in the development of civilization...3)The Indian has a more significant background of our own history than we commonly acknowledge." Chapters include: The Basket Makers of California; Fishers of the Streams; Boat people of the Northwest Coast; Hunters of the Arctic Coast, The Pueblo People and their Neighbors:The American Southwest and North Mexico, and more. 273 pp. including Index. 9 double page Maps. Illustrated throughout by Antonio Sotomayor. Mildly soiled covers with some rubbing to edges and spine ends. Overall covers are Good or better. Browning around endpaper edges, otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. Sauer was an American geographer who was an authority on desert studies, tropical areas, the human geography of American Indians, and agriculture and native crops of the New World. Antonio Sotomayor was a well-known painter and illustrator $40.00

[004674] Senate. MILITARY POST NEAR SHERIDAN, WYOMING. ill. Folding Maps. 1900. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Disbound. Wyoming. Very Good+ 56th Congress, 1st Session. Senate, Report No. 236. Elihu Root, Secretary of War recommending the "establishment and erection of a military post near the city of Sheridan. It is the midst of a territory surrounded by Indian reservations....The reservation of the Crow Indians is 16 miles north and the Cheyenne Reservation lies 65 miles northeast of the proposed site for this military post. There are of the former tribe 2,139 Indians, and of the latter 1,330 Indians. The Northern Cheyennes are warlike and trouble frequently arises between the settlers and this tribe..." 15 pp. 2 colored foldout maps. #1Showing Location of Sheridan, Wyoming and Surrounding Reservations, Total Number of Indians on Reservations shown 35,631 from Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Settlers within 20 miles of East Line of Big Horn Forest Reserve, 10,000.(shows 15 Indian reservations with populations) Map is 18"x14". #2. Sketch showing Pipe Line from intake to Fort McKenzie also location of two reservoir sites on Military Reserve for additional pressure, and elevations up Big Goose Creek Valley to Big Horn Mountains. Map is 18"x16". Document is disbound. 1/2" tear at top edge of first page, otherwise document is Very Good +. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. Maps are Near Fine. Famous Americans in document: Elihu Root, Secretary of War; Nelson A. Miles, Major-General Commanding; G.D. Meiklejohn, Assistant Secretary of War; E.V. Sumner, Brigadier-General, U.S. Volunteers, Commanding; Binger Hermann, Commissioner; R. A. Alger, Secretary of War; William McKinley, President; and Charles F. Manderson. $50.00

[001015] Smithsonian Institution. ESSAYS IN HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA, Published in Honor of John R. Swanton. ill. Plates, Figures, Foldout Map. Washington: Smithsonian, 1940. Size: Approx. 6" x 9 1/4". Blue Cloth. Anthropology. Very Good Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 100. Published in Honor of John R. Swanton in Celebration of his Fortieth Year with the Smithsonian Institution. 600 pp. 16 plates,33 figures (sketches) many of which are maps plus a foldout map. Very Good condition except for library markings and " discard markings". Bibliography of Anthropological Papers by Swanton. $20.00

[000940] Smithsonian Institution. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1866. ill. Figures,Woodcuts. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". 3/4 Leather. Smithsonian. Good+ House of Representatives. 39th Congress, 2d Session. Mis. Doc. No.83. Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution, for the Year 1866. Includes List of Meteorological Stations and Observers for Year 1866. Memoir of Hon. W.W. Seaton in Connection with The Smithsonian Institution..." Included in Appendix: "Memoir of Magendie" by M. Flourens; "On the Senses. 3.-The Sense of Taste", IV.-"The Sense of Hearing"and V.-The Sense of Sight. from the German periodical; "Lecture on the Results of Spectrum Analysis Applied to the Heavenly Bodies by Wm. Huggins; "On the External Appearance of the Sun's Disk" from the German periodical; "On Accidental or Subjective Colors. by the Abbe Moigno; "The Figures of Equilibrium of a Liquid Mass Withdrawn from the Action of Gravity.(Sixth Series) by J. Plateau.; "Report on the Transactions of the Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva", by Doctor Goss;"Notes on the Tinneh or Chepewyan Indians of British and Russian America", " The American Migration" by Frederick Von Hellwald; "Indian Pottery" by Charles Rau; "Artificial Shell Deposits of the United States." by D. G. Brinton; "Pile-Work Antiquities of Olmutz.", "The Antiquities on the Banks of the Mississippi River and Lake Pepin" by Dr. L.C. Estes; " Collecting Land and Fresh-Water Shells" by Dr. James Lewis; "Meteorological Correspondence"; "Horary Variations of the Barometer." by Marshal Vaillant; "On the Formation of Ice at the Bottom of the Water" by M. Engelhardt; "The Earthquake in Eastern Mexico of the Second of January, 1866" by Dr. Charles Sartorius; and "Statistics Relative to Norwegian Mountains, Lakes, and the Snow-Line".469 pp. Index. 3/4 leather with marbled boards. All edges marbled plus marbled endpapers. Spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Some cracking and scuffing of spine leather with minor chipping at top edge. Rubbing at leather corners. Mild foxing otherwise interior Very Good. $50.00

[001628] Sweetser, Kate Dickinson. Book of Indian Braves.. 1913. Very Good+ $25.00

[000252] VAN EVERY, DALE. DISINHERITEDThe Lost Birthright of the American Indian. ill. Maps. NY: William Morrow & Co. NY, 1967. Fourth Printing. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2". Blue Cloth. Native American. Very Good / Good. "An important work of history, 'Disinherited' tells the powerful and moving story of the events preceding the Removal Act, its shattering effect on the eastern Indians, and what significance it had (and still has)for all Americans." Includes maps, bibliography, and index. Light fading at edges otherwise exterior is VG+. Owner's initials on half title, otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Dust Jacket with chips, and repaired tears.279 pp. $20.00

[001693] Wilson Alan . Navajo Breakthrough an Introductory Course. 1969. Size: Approx. 8 1/4 " x 10 3/4". Paper Wraps. Good $25.00